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Girard442

(6,059 posts)
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 08:58 AM Sep 2020

Is Facebook dying?

I stopped using FB pre-Trump for mostly personal reasons. I keep an account on the side with a fake name so I can peek in on people to see what they're up to (yeah, bad me). I've noticed that the volume of FB posts has dropped way off. A lot of people haven't posted in months.

Anyone else seeing that?

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Is Facebook dying? (Original Post) Girard442 Sep 2020 OP
It may be a COVID effect. Hugin Sep 2020 #1
No traveling, not seeing children and grandchildren, working from home jimfields33 Sep 2020 #2
Exactly! I posted all the time when I was out traveling helpisontheway Sep 2020 #8
Totally true. jimfields33 Sep 2020 #13
hopefully JI7 Sep 2020 #3
agreed JustGene Sep 2020 #4
Leave Facebook to the MAGAT's! Dread Pirate Roberts Sep 2020 #5
Probably just confirmation bias. bluedigger Sep 2020 #6
Are you friends with the people you peek on? ItsjustMe Sep 2020 #7
Not at all. aikoaiko Sep 2020 #9
I certainly hope so. backscatter712 Sep 2020 #10
I was worried I wouldn't see a facebook post here today. SlogginThroughIt Sep 2020 #11
Facebook is the problem ampm Sep 2020 #12
No LeftInTX Sep 2020 #14
No. ismnotwasm Sep 2020 #15
It would be a good thing for humankind if it does die. 2naSalit Sep 2020 #16
Just look at its revenue Silent3 Sep 2020 #17

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
1. It may be a COVID effect.
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 09:03 AM
Sep 2020

Possibly with so many people working from home they've discovered more immediate and less commercialized means of getting their daily FOMO fix.

jimfields33

(15,454 posts)
2. No traveling, not seeing children and grandchildren, working from home
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 09:06 AM
Sep 2020

Not much to report on Facebook more then maybe once a week. Our lives for the most part are boring.

helpisontheway

(5,004 posts)
8. Exactly! I posted all the time when I was out traveling
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 10:12 AM
Sep 2020

and doing things. Now the most exciting things I posted are pictures from our first garden. 😂 I plan to post once I complete my first diamond art project. lol We rarely leave the house except for walks and quick stops at the store. We usually order pickup or delivery for that though.. So really not much to post.

jimfields33

(15,454 posts)
13. Totally true.
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 10:49 AM
Sep 2020

Glad you get to “play” in the garden. That’s always a nice treat. Sadly in these times anyway. Ha!

Dread Pirate Roberts

(1,896 posts)
5. Leave Facebook to the MAGAT's!
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 09:41 AM
Sep 2020

Let them have their little circle of hate where they can spread their Memes and Russian propaganda in an alternate universe. Soon the only advertisements will be for buying gold, "all natural" male enhancements and My Pillow. Let's see Zuckerberg make a living off of that.

ItsjustMe

(11,166 posts)
7. Are you friends with the people you peek on?
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 09:51 AM
Sep 2020

If not, you will see only the posts that are public. It depends on the settings on their facebook page.

ampm

(299 posts)
12. Facebook is the problem
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 10:48 AM
Sep 2020

I joined mainly to see family pic. then it got a bunch of I don't know people so now I go once in a while but I really do my best not to post there. Just giving a head up to a cute family picture.

Silent3

(15,018 posts)
17. Just look at its revenue
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 11:43 AM
Sep 2020

No, it's not dying.

Of course, long ago Facebook ceased to be a favorite social media platform for young people, who seems to need a new platform every 12-18 months because the last most popular one isn't cool enough anymore. I see no threat yet to Facebook being the most firmly established platform for everybody else, however.

I'd really love it if a completely non-commercial, open-source distributed platform could be established, but for all of the privacy concerns people have about Facebook, and content-policing concerns too, I suspect those things might be even harder to achieve with no central control.

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